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A federal monitor who supervises the jail complex on Rikers Island is expected to deliver a sharp rebuke of New York City's jails chief, Louis A. Molina, in court Tuesday over violent or negligent treatment of incarcerated people by jail staff.In three reports filed in Federal District Court in recent weeks, the monitor, Steve J. Martin, has accused Mr. Molina and his Department of Correction staff of hiding information and shirking responsibility for recent events at Rikers.

Few thought it would be easy when Laura Kavanagh took the reins of the nation's largest fire department in November as its first female leader.Most of the 33 men who had run the New York Fire Department, dating back to 1883, were older, with an up-through-the-ranks pedigree.But Ms. Kavanagh, 40, was the youngest in over a century.

During his first year as mayor, Eric Adams said he was focused on ensuring that city government served the working-class New Yorkers who helped elect him.But now he is under fire for cutting funding for libraries a critical lifeline for people who do not have internet access at home or who need after-school tutoring and English language instruction.

Image Residents of Santiago de Cuba survey the debris after Hurricane Sandy passed over Cuba on Oct. 26, 2012.Credit...Desmond Boylan/Reuters Oct. 11-26, 2012 A tropical wave leaves the west coast of Africa and within a week reaches the Caribbean Sea, where it develops into a hurricane by Oct. 24.It makes landfall in Jamaica, then Cuba, before passing through the Bahamas, where it increases greatly in size.

Selective admissions will return to dozens of New York City middle schools this fall after a two-year pandemic pause, but in far smaller numbers than before the pandemic - dramatically reshuffling the city's notoriously stressful and complex application process.Schools Chancellor David Banks left the decision to reinstate competitive middle school admissions up to each district's superintendent, and while some families pushed to restore screens, others lobbied to get rid of them, saying it was unfair to sort the city's 10-year olds based on their fourth grade academic performance.

Mayor Eric Adams committed Tuesday to addressing a longstanding shortage of preschool seats for students with disabilities, with plans to open 800 more of those spots for 3- and 4-year-old children by this spring.The mayor will boost pay for preschool special education teachers, who typically earn up to $20,000 less than their general education counterparts, officials said.

Mayor Adams suggested Wednesday that his administration may have to house inmates at a half-finished Brooklyn jail in order to comply with the city's plan to shutter Rikers Island by 2027.The Brooklyn jail, set to be built at the site of the old House of Detention on Atlantic Avenue, is one of four borough-based facilities that four years from now are supposed to replace the Rikers complexes.

(CNN)New York City this week will end a controversial Covid-19 vaccine mandate for city employees, ending a policy that has at times pitted the city's leadership against its municipal workforce.The mandate, which has prompted numerous lawsuits, is set to end on Friday after the city's Board of Health adopts amendments to the city's vaccination policy, City Hall said in a news release.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter.Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.Rudy Giuliani stood before the angry crowd, his voice strained but carrying clearly over the assembled throng.The audience was angry and aggrievedand many were also armed.Giving little heed to civility or comity, Giuliani knew what his crowd wanted, which was to overrun a building where officials were taking actions that the mob believed to be wrongheaded.

New York has agreed to pay at least $21,500 to each of the hundreds of demonstrators at a 2020 George Floyd protest in the Bronx who were arrested, detained, and/or subjected to force by police officers, according to a proposed settlement filed in federal court.The settlement, if approved, could result in the city paying out millions to approximately 320 people who were involved in demonstrations on June 4 in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, according to an unopposed motion in the class action lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Several New York City government agencies risk "biased outcomes" due to a lack of guidelines for their use of artificial intelligence, according to a new state comptroller's report.The audit, issued Thursday morning by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, focused primarily on four city agencies: the NYPD, the Administration for Children's Services and the Education and Buildings departments.

Tenants living in Manhattan's largest apartment complex, Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, won a battle to keep their rents insulated from potentially sharp increases, after a judge ruled this week against their landlord, the Wall Street private equity firm Blackstone.The company is the largest owner of commercial real estate in the world, and has lately been expanding into rental housing.

Mayor Eric Adams defended his plan to involuntarily hospitalize mentally ill homeless people on Thursday, saying that he was determined to lead the city into uncharted waters where others were afraid to go and tackle a social ill that everyone else punted on.The mayor's program  under which the police, medics and clinicians will have people deemed unable to care for themselves brought to hospitals  may be ambitious.

Mayor Eric Adams expressed confidence Tuesday morning that Governor Kathy Hochul would come out on top in a bid for her first full term as governor after voting for the incumbent at his Brooklyn polling site.When asked by a reporter if he could work with Republican Congress Member Lee Zeldin should he win the governor's race, Adams replied, " I don't even know why I need that question, Kathy's winning tonight."

The mayor says he still wants 3-K to be universal, but he is not committing to quickly adding more seats by next school year, which Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to do.Yes, the city still owes child care centers millions of dollars for the last school year.The occupation had driven out the original members of Congregation Ramath Orah - among them Rabbi Robert Serebrenik, who had been the chief rabbi of Luxembourg and became the rabbi of the new congregation.He said the work force was too large, child care centers were not being paid on time, and there were too many empty 3-K seats in certain neighborhoods that weren't being filled.